The first…..

We all have a first right?
Well ok this blogpost is not going to where some are thinking it is…..

When I was a member of a local photo club we visited the studio of a local professional photographer (George Appelo) some years ago, coupled to this was a competition. At that time I was shooting models for maybe 1-2 years and I included a shot of a model…. much to my surprise it won 🙂

Last week during a open house of FifoLabs in Lelystad I met up with him and he asked me to shoot some images during the demo he was teaching, he prepared the set with a model and a bike and out of blue (well for the audience) he asked me to join him for the demo…. now to be honest I love to do demos and workshops but I also feel that when someone else is teaching I feel much more comfortable as a spectator than as an instructor, but I had to do it….(all in good fun by the way) so I decided to throw him a curveball. Instead of shooting the model I said that the best thing to shoot is someone with character and I dragged our photographer back on stage to stand in front of the lights. I only took 5-6 shots so it was not the way I normally do a shoot but I still wanted to share the images due to the connected story…. we could say that George was the first professional photographer to grand me a price :-), thanks George.